Space Janitors is a science fiction comedy show hosted on The Escapist, which updates every friday. Find it here.The show follows several people involved as janitors and other low-grade employees at a very large space-ship/station belong to The Empire. There is also a series of shorts called "Space Janitors: Deck Crew."

Space Janitors provides examples of:

Affably Evil: Roarke who always gives a positive spin on things and tries so hard to be nice to people while finding Mass Genocide to be relaxing, blowing up planets to be someone's best idea yet and the best way to get to make new friends is to force them to spend their day off living their most embarrassing personal stories on the holodeck.

Future Food Is Artificial: Imperial rations are various colors of "mush"; pink mush, yellow mush, sweet mush. Also, some or all of it may be made from recycled Squall Troopers, or other emperial subjects. The crew appears to like it, however. They react with horror to the idea of eating meat of the bone.

Future Slang: "kiss" has been supplanted by the more juvenile "smooch."

Grey and Grey Morality: Rebels are portrayed as egotistical adrenaline junkies while imperial citizens are portrayed as very happy with their dystopian lives.

Groin Attack: Not deliberately, but every so often a deck crewmember nuts himself on a running-light probe; this is reffered to as "The ol' entire-ship-to-the-groin"

Released to Elsewhere: Retired clones are supposedly sent to the resort world Pyus Dunes. Darby thinks they're actually eaten, and Steve-225 finds evidence that they're sent to work in a gas mine. Turns out, Pyus Dunes is real. Oppressive the Empire may be, but at least it doesn't lie.

One Deck Crew short had two female mechanics lamenting this trend, stating that the robots from their childhood had much more personality, and mentioning that the new-model androids border on Uncanny Valley.

Tractor Beam: A portable model that looks an awful lot like a leaf blower.

Trust-Building Blunder: How Captain Roarke meets the group; spending their single vacation day out of the entire year doing horrible team-building excersizes, such as having Edith read her epic-length My Little Phony fanfiction-disguised-as-a-novel (which she didn't want anyone else to know about), and making the group act out a Film Noir pastiche with Mike as the detective.

Villain with Good Publicity: Dark Lord, rather than being intimidating, is regarded as super-awesome. Darby mentioning that he's seen him in person makes his friends jealous. In fact, watching Dark Lord work is how Darby spends his vacation. His one-day-out-of-the-whole-year vacation.

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